Sentences with phrase «of excellent school»

Because of its excellent school system, friendly neighborhoods, and low cost of living, many find Cornith an ideal place to call home.

Last May, as Nancy Everhart (at the time she was president of AASL) was finishing her Vision Tour of excellent school libraries around the country, she announced 100 things that students would miss if school librarians were...

Recommendations address the major barriers limiting growth of the sector's best, such as scarcity of excellent school leaders, funding for growth, and motivation of charter leaders to grow while maintaining excellence.

Interestingly, the quality research shows that one hallmark of an excellent school is that the whole school is organized to recognize and meet individual children's learning needs.

In this vein, a number of excellent school models have developed organically in rural communities.

Late - twentieth - century theological schools in North America, however, exhibit the strain of trying to appropriate two quite different models of excellent schooling, both of which are by this time traditional in our cultural setting.

As we saw in chapter 2, North American theological schools are located on various «Roads» and «Streets,» all of which in one way or another have historically taken paideia as the model of excellent schooling.

In this chapter the author names two quite different models of excellent schooling.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

One of the main reasons for the establishment of these excellent schools was to train an adequate number of preachers to remedy the problem of the large and increasing numbers of people who were given to ignorance and decadence in this country.

However, the «Berlin» type of excellent schooling did dictate prevailing standards of academically respectable education, which theological education embraced and to which it has held itself accountable.

might suggest that, with its roots in «Jerusalem,» Christianity in fact theologically mandates a third type of excellent schooling altogether, one hitherto ignored by major Christian communities.

Both types of excellent schooling are deeply institutionalized in the practices that constitute American theological education of all sorts; neither one can simply be abandoned by a faculty vote!

But nothing is more concrete than the differences among the racial, gender, and socioeconomic locations of persons involved in theological schooling, nor more concrete than the differences among the practices through which persons have sought to understand God, nor more concrete than the differences between the ways in which models of excellent schooling have been institutionalized.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

While Mr. de Blasio and his schools chancellor have softened their rhetoric toward charters, Ms. Moskowitz and her allies with the charter umbrella group Families of Excellent Schools have consistently accused the Department of Education of «failing» black and Hispanic students.

It has a beautiful heritage of excellent schools including Dr Are's GCI, Loyola College, Ibadan, Olivet Baptist High School, Ibadan Grammar School, Yejide Girls, St Annes, St Teresa's and Maryway Grammar School, but Oyo State can not even maintain these schools!

Programs developed locally, whose founders have a deep understanding of the culture of our state and the needs of its children, are the best possible leaders for a new generation of excellent schools.

«It also contradicts Nicky Morgan's recent statement in which she said «Academies are just one part of the picture, and their work is complemented by thousands of excellent schools in the maintained sector.»

Our portfolio should build on that cumulative success and add the new strategies, technologies, and ideas that, together, will yield the next generation of excellent schools.

It was a beautiful feeling to have him speak on behalf of our vision of excellent schools at LAUSD board meetings.

BPS has committed to creating a K - 12 system of excellent schools that ensures that all young people have access to high - quality educational options that prepare them well for future success.

It can be really useful to visit a number of excellent schools even if you don't want or can't afford to send your child there.

Dr. Howard Fuller, one of the country's leading advocates for public school choice, spoke about the importance of excellent schools at «Parents as Partners,» a major school information fair that ExED co-hosted in Exposition Park in Los Angeles.

The tours have been a powerful mechanism for showcasing the work of excellent schools and showing leaders in the community what is possible in schools with the right conditions in place.

«We believe that quality should always trump quantity,» Dan Varner, executive director of Excellent Schools Detroit said in the statement.

In 2014, Michael Vargas returned to his hometown of San Benito with a vision of excellent schools and communities.

When considering the economic opportunities, the close proximity of excellent schools, specialty stores, boutiques, supermarkets, shopping centers, and the convenient access to high quality medical care, Shreveport is an ideal place to live and work.

Furthermore, there are plenty of excellent schools for student renters including the Wyoming Laramie County Community College (LCCC).

Irvine homes for lease are in great demand, because of excellent schools, lots of good jobs and employment opportunities in the area, close proximity to UC Irvine campus, people moving to Irvine, and that some folks are unable to buy a home at this time.

Not exact matches

To «gussy» oneself up, Cleveland, proprietor of the excellent Finishing School blog, advises gents to consider a nice pocket square or a pair of great cufflinks, while ladies can take their pick of jewelry.

While we believe the 10 programs featured on our list are excellent schools, this list doesn't provide a full picture of the Canadian MBA landscape, nor does it factor in individual needs.

(The aforementioned Sherkow, an associate professor at New York Law School, has a great take on the cinematic twists and turns of the case — including some curious legal strategies and the mysterious role of an anonymous third party — at Stanford Law School's infrequent but excellent Law and Biosciences Blog.)

With an excellent credit score (I have a solid 755 + and pay balances in full each month for nearly 10 years), a degree from an accredited school and steady income, this doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Citing the school's strong community engagement, growing research success and excellent reputation, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) has re-accredited the Haskayne School of Business for another five school's strong community engagement, growing research success and excellent reputation, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) has re-accredited the Haskayne School of Business for another five School of Business for another five years.

While you can still easily find barbers that offer a traditional wet straight razor shave, straight razors are also making a bit of a comeback amongst regular guys as well — both for the old - school appeal and the fact that they provide an excellent shave.

Brian Bushee from the Wharton School of Business wrote an excellent paper back in 2005 that highlighted the behavioral differences among institutional investors.

Pro football, far and away the most riveting of television sports events, is clearly superior to its college counterpart, which, excellent at its best, can fade to unutterable tedium when the game is the Utah School of Mines vs. the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.

I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative schools claim to be excellent.

Its concreteness in part consists of its own internal arrangements of power and status, and its schooling is excellent to the extent that built into those institutionalized arrangements are mechanisms fostering ideology critique within the school.

A second set of marks of excellence in theological schooling comes into view when we turn to reflect on the concreteness of a theological school: Its concreteness consists in part in its having institutionalized practices of governance, and its schooling is excellent to the extent that its polity leaves room so that the effort to understand God can be genuine by being free to err.

Similarly, although many schools do excellent work promoting knowledge and understanding of racism and poverty, it is much rarer to find even Catholic schools having Pro-life Awareness Weeks as a standard annual whole - school activity in which pupils are encouraged to understand the justice and coherence of Church teaching on abortion and related issues.

Its concreteness in part consists of its transactions with its immediate host community, and its schooling is excellent to the extent that its transactions are deliberately and self - critically shaped in such a way that what they symbolize to the immediate neighborhood and what they teach members of the school community itself are consonant with the concepts taught and learned in its central practices.

or the first time, more than 100,000 engineers are graduating from American schools every year, and we're on track to accomplish my goal of training 100,000 excellent new STEM teachers in a decade.

In accord with the «Athens» type, Wood insists that what makes theological schooling excellent schooling is that it shapes sound theological judgment; through this paideia we acquire a habitus, albeit a habitus for action that is self - critical in the modern sense of «critique» — a sense that ancient Athens knew nothing of.

Traveling from ducks to insects to people, the «if» method of the Stanislavsky school of acting is also excellent for limbering up one's imagination to the point where «the sufferings of the Chinese» (or, in our own day, the people of the Sahel) become real to one.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

It furnishes us with a clear and authentic statement of Catholic teaching on education and provides excellent guidance and suggestions for its implementation in Catholic schools.

They tend to withdraw into gated communities, with private security guards and «enclaves of good schools, excellent health care, and first - rate infrastructures — all the while scoffing at almost all functions of government, thus cutting off the supply of taxes for most public undertakings — leaving much of the rest of the population behind.»